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Researchers get neurons and silicon talking

...neuroscience techniques while tracking the signals coming from the chip. The development of the interface and chip are crucial for this new technology, but problems remain. "Right now, we need to refine the way we stimulate the neurons, to avoid damaging them," says Vassanelli. That's one of the problems...

Taking a bite out of a fellow worker helps wasps recruit new foragers

...nnell. "With no water, food and building material coming in to the nest, the colonies needed to ramp up the...aterials the colony needs, primarily food, are not coming in. So the colony needs to recruit new workers to make up for the loss," O'Donnell explained. On t...

UW scientists unravel critical genetic puzzle for flu virus replication

...It was not really known whether the fragments were coming as a set," explains Kawaoka, whose team conducted the work using a long-studied influenza A virus, the family responsible for regular influenza outbreaks, including such medical calamities as the 1918 influenza pandemic. The fact that the virus req...

UC Berkeley researchers create a biologically-inspired artificial compound eye

...rst, there are the lenses, and then as light keeps coming in, they make their own optical paths and connect with the visual system." Lee speculates that the artificial compound eyes will be put to use within a few years. Their first applications may be in ultra-thin camera phones. After that, he expects to...

Free HIV tests cheaper than charging when goal is preventing AIDS

...ielman said, with nearly four times as many people coming in on some days for the free HIV tests ?from 4 people per day to 15 or more. Even after the fee was reinstated, the testing numbers stayed higher than before, about 7 people per day. When the Duke team received funding to continue the free testing, t...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...ithin hours may help world health officials combat coming epidemics and pandemics. Tests last month on the new technology by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta showed the CU-Boulder Flu Chip can determine the genetic make-up of types and subtypes of the flu virus in about 11 hours, s...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...ng dead seals and sea lions, whose populations are coming back along the California coast." Captive breeding Standing nearly 5 feet tall and boasting a nine-and-a-half-foot wingspan, the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is the largest bird in North America. Thousands are believed to have inha...

UK sperm donor crisis

...erm donors. With the change in the anonymity rules coming we saw a sharp fall in numbers and a change in the profile of the applicants, perhaps reflecting the attitudes of different groups to anonymity. There was a significant increase in the number of men who had partners and, after the Department of Healt...

New battery technology helps stimulate nerves

...t incontinence and overcome muscular impairment is coming on line as scientists and engineers continue to shrink the components that make up the devices. Central to that ability, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Emeritus of chemistry Robert West, is new lithium battery technology, tec...

Yale participates in global human genome initiative

...ns from North America, Europe and Asia join in the coming months. Its first meeting will take place in Boston on October 17-18, 2005. ...

Genetic testing still smart choice, despite uncertainties

... diseases, Kovalinskaia said. "As more data were coming out, saying that as many as 50 percent of (IVF) embryos were mosaic, we started worrying about the accuracy of preimplantation genetic diagnosis," she said. "When you take one cell, does it represent the entire embryo? What we've shown is that we can...

Deep treasure to be found in Oculina Bank

...this section are slowly but surely increasing. In coming years, researchers hope to see populations of snappers and groupers recovering enough to again form large breeding aggregations in the area. "We need to establish a statistically and scientifically sound basis to assess whether the habitat and fishe...

Ancient anthropoid origins discovered in Africa

... more information about early anthropoid evolution coming out of BQ-2 over the next few years." The sediments at BQ-2 lie nearly 750 feet below those of L-41 and were dated at around 37 million years old by measuring telltale variations in magnetic fields in the sediments due to ancient fluctuations in the ...

Retinal scans eyed for New Mexico show cattle

...th ID technology because it's inevitable that it's coming to New Mexico," Encinias said. When the idea of mandatory cattle identification was introduced several years ago, cattle producers were concerned about expense, inconvenience and loss of privacy. But experts stress the importance of controlling ca...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...ters," he notes. "There is little chance those are coming from the inshore fisheries, which are so heavily fished a lobster is sent to market as soon as it's up to weight. What it indicates to me is the opening up of new deep areas on the outer continental shelf, 200 miles (322 km) offshore." Among other o...

Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatments Highlighted

...mia, private practice, government and industry are coming together for a week-long multi-disciplinary symposium in interventional oncology, a rapidly growing area of medicine involving minimally invasive interventional radiology treatments for cancer. The first two days of the meeting focus on treatments f...

Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic

...cials and media prognosticators are accurate, this coming winter may bring with it one of the most sweeping, deadly outbreaks of killer flu that the world has ever seen. While that prospect would terrify the average person, it also intrigues Jim Higgins, a doctoral candidate at Lehigh University, who has b...

NCAR analysis shows widespread pollution from 2004 wildfires

...llowed them to distinguish between carbon monoxide coming from the wildfires and from other sources. The team concluded that the Alaskan and Canadian wildfires emitted about 30 teragrams of carbon monoxide from June through August of last year. Because of the wildfires, ground-level concentrations of ozone...

Newly recognized gene mutation may reduce seeds, resurrect plants

...nt to throw it away, I noticed it had small shoots coming up as if it had returned to life." The surprising finding in studying the mutant was that a single gene could affect so many diverse traits, Jenks said. Another somewhat similar mutant Arabidopsis showed alterations only in wax and seed development,...

A step toward the $1,000 personal genome using readily available lab equipment

...evelopments give the feeling that improvements are coming very quickly," said HMS professor of genetics Church, who also heads the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, MIT-Harvard DOE Genomes to Life Center, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Excellence in Genomic Science. "The cos...

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